Archive

Can a Video Game Express Modernist Values?
“Dark Souls” is marked by formal features — difficulty, narrative fragmentation, and spatiotemporal distortion — that are associated with modernist art.
Nathan WainsteinOct 31, 2020
- SF
Keeping the Centrist Faith?
Rereading Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” in Donald Trump’s America.
Matt HansonOct 31, 2020
- Fiction
- Politics
The Great Distraction: On Aaron Sorkin’s “Trial of the Chicago 7”
J. Hoberman passes judgment on “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” directed by Aaron Sorkin.
J. HobermanOct 31, 2020
- Film
- Politics
The Banality of Otherness: On Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun”
The latest installment in the “Twilight” series retells the story from Edward’s perspective.
Nicole BlackwoodOct 31, 2020
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Justin Turner is Smiling
Nathan Kalman-Lamb dissects the motivations of Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner, who joined his victorious teammates after testing positive.
Nathan Kalman-LambOct 31, 2020
A Country of Influence: A Conversation with Karen Kevorkian
Ramón García interviews poet Karen Kevorkian about her latest collection, “Quivira.”
Ramón GarcíaOct 30, 2020
- Poetry
Real Life Rock Top 10: October 2020
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusOct 30, 2020
- Music
“The Quiet Americans” Reveals the Un-American History of American Espionage
A history of Cold War failures as seen through the tragic careers of four American spies.
Pearse AndersonOct 30, 2020
Richard L. Hasen on Election Meltdowns
Rick HasenOct 30, 2020
Of Poetry, Politics, and Pandemics
Maxim D. ShrayerOct 30, 2020
Cold War Mirrors
Shehryar Fazli reviews "The Quiet Americans," Scott Anderson's new history of the Cold War.
Shehryar FazliOct 30, 2020
Progressives Need Their Own Pantheon: Talking to Senator Sherrod Brown
Andy Fitch talks with US Senator Sherrod Brown about the varied tenets of progressive representative politics and his book "Desk 88."
Andy FitchOct 30, 2020
On Choice, Children, and Womanhood: A Conversation with Christa Parravani
Kelly Thompson talks with Christa Parravani about her new memoir, “Loved and Wanted.”
Kelly ThompsonOct 29, 2020
Psychopathic High Strangeness: On Jeremy Robert Johnson’s “The Loop”
Matt E. Lewis reviews “The Loop” by Jeremy Robert Johnson.
Matt E. LewisOct 29, 2020
- Noir
- SF
The Image of a President
Khameer Kidia finds similarities in the cults of portraiture for Robert Mugabe and Donald Trump.
Khameer KidiaOct 29, 2020
Exhausting the Vein of Realism: A Conversation with Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Rachel Cline talks to Lynne Sharon Schwartz about her new book, “Truthtelling: Stories, Fables, Glimpses.”
Rachel ClineOct 29, 2020
- Fiction